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The Mom Hour

A Week Of Real-Life Lunch Packing: Episode 385

The Mom Hour

Mom Hour Media

Parenting, Kids & Family

4.9 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2022

⏱️ 84 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

Now that school routines are underway, we’re going deep into the details of lunch packing – with the help of our team! In Episode 385 Meagan and Sarah call on the experience, perspective and real-life lunch packing advice of five moms from around the country, whose lunch-eating kids range in age from two to sixteen. We touch on lunch packing pain points, tried-and-true ideas for each food group, strategies for snacking, and some of our must-have lunch packing accessories. We hope that a peek inside the bento boxes of other families will both validate that you’re already doing a great job (yes, even if you send the same thing every day!) AND infuse your lunch packing with some easy new ideas. Take a listen!

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0:00.0

Hi, I'm Sarah and I'm Megan. We're two moms with eight kids between us from

0:05.2

little to grown. We're in different areas of the country and in different stages

0:09.0

of life, but we both know that motherhood's a lot easier when real moms share

0:12.7

tips and encouragement. And remind you that it's really all gonna be okay. We're

0:16.6

not experts. We're parents who've been there. We're not perfect. We're real.

0:19.9

Welcome to the mom hour. Hey everyone and welcome to episode 385 of the mom

0:26.7

hour. I am Sarah Powers here with Megan Francis. Hey Megan. Hi, Sarah. So we're

0:32.6

also here today sort of virtually not live and in the flesh, but we are really

0:37.4

leaning today on the expertise and perspective and real life stories from

0:41.8

five of our team members from across the country. You'll get to meet them in

0:45.7

just a second. But Megan, I feel like we're kind of virtually here with them.

0:49.8

And I'm so glad because we're talking about lunch packing today, but you and I

0:54.6

are not packing as many lunches as we used to be. So thank goodness for the

0:58.1

team, right? Yeah. I mean, I was hardcore head down in heavy lunch packing

1:04.8

mode for a long time. And I honestly would probably have continued into middle

1:10.0

school for Clara, but then pandemic happened. And then lunch in Michigan was

1:14.6

free for everybody. I want to say it was definitely all of last year and maybe

1:19.4

the year whatever amount of school the kids actually went to in person the

1:22.8

year before I was starting to mix the years up. But well, no, because 2020

1:27.6

would have been like, there's just no school. So it was 2021. It was free all

1:30.5

year. And this year when the kids went back, I have to say putting $100 in that

1:35.4

lunch account on the first day kind of hurt. And so I'm not going to say never

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